From: james harvey <jamespharvey20@gmail.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Is "man lvcreate" for "-Z|--zero" incorrectly worded?
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 22:05:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+X5Wn6TiCUp7aEn5Tkc8vpZfET9-7Ke2Wh1GHTOwy3CrMvN+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
On lvm2 2.02.183, man lvcreate includes:
-Z|--zero y|n
Controls zeroing of the first 4KiB of data in the new LV. Default
is y. Snapshot COW volumes are always zeroed. LV is not zeroed if
the read only flag is set. Warning: trying to mount an unzeroed LV
can cause the system to hang.
This says only the "first 4KiB" is zeroed.
Yet, when running "lvcreate --chunksize <something large>", it says:
WARNING: Pool zeroing and ###.00 MiB large chunk size slows down
thin provisioning.
WARNING: Consider disabling zeroing (-Zn) or using smaller chunk
size (<512.00 KiB).
Which seems to indicate it's going to zero the entire newly allocated
chunk size, rather than only the first 4KiB.
The lvcreate warning goes more along with the purpose of zeroing, to
prevent reading data one shouldn't have access to.
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-10 3:06 UTC|newest]
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2019-01-10 3:05 james harvey [this message]
2019-01-10 9:31 ` [linux-lvm] Is "man lvcreate" for "-Z|--zero" incorrectly worded? Zdenek Kabelac
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